Location

Description

If you want to be always updated on the latest innovations, meet like-minded professionals and share your knowledge about Autonomous Cars with other great minds at an informal Happy Hour, join us!

February 2019 Expert Guest Speakers:

Kris Harikrishnan,

Director of Autonomous Vehicle Strategy at AAA NCNU, leads all GoMentum programs including shared autonomous vehicle deployment to relieve congestion in the first and the last mile, V2X testing and deployment with cities and other public-private partnerships.

Kris loves all things autonomous vehicles and recently completed the Udacity Self Driving Car nanodegree. Prior to AAA, Kris spent several years at startups and large companies including HP and Cisco in product management and strategy roles. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Baharak (Becky) Soltanian,

Tech Lead Autonomous Driving at BYTON, she received her BS from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and her MS and Ph.D. from Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland in Signal processing and Telecommunication engineering, respectively. She has over 5 years of experience in detection/estimation algorithms for ADAS sensors (GPS, LiDar, and Ultrasonic) for self-driving vehicles. She worked for Velodyne Lidar and Daqri LLC companies and participated on design and implementation of different generations of LiDar sensors including solid-state LiDar. Currently, She is a Tech lead manager of AI for Computer Vision in Byton and responsible for design and development of AI algorithms.